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TOPSHOT - Syrian Hadi Mustafa Habbush (Habboush), 9, brother of 13-year-old Jameel who was also rescued a day earlier from under the rubble of a building following Russian air strikes, looks on as he lies on a hospital bed in the rebel-held northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, on October 12, 2016.n On October 11 an AFP photographer at the scene said rescuers heard Jameel Habbush shouting under the rubble and began digging towards him and worked to free him. / AFP / THAER MOHAMMED

Rescuers exhausted as air raids batter Aleppo - Assad to use victory in city as 'springboard'

TOPSHOT - Syrian Hadi Mustafa Habbush (Habboush), 9, brother of 13-year-old Jameel who was also rescued a day earlier from under the rubble of a building following Russian air strikes, looks on as he lies on a hospital bed in the rebel-held northern embattled Syrian city of Aleppo, on October 12, 2016.On October 11 an AFP photographer at the scene said rescuers heard Jameel Habbush shouting under the rubble and began digging towards him and...

TOPSHOT - A van carries the body of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's to his palace in Bangkok on October 14, 2016. Bhumibol, the world's longest-reigning monarch, passed away aged 88 on October 13, 2016 after years of ill health, removing a stabilising father figure from a country where political tensions remain two years after a military coup. / AFP / MUNIR UZ ZAMAN

Grieving Thailand salutes late king - Crown Prince Maha delays assumption to throne

TOPSHOT - A van carries the body of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's to his palace in Bangkok on October 14, 2016. Bhumibol, the world's longest-reigning monarch, passed away aged 88 on October 13, 2016 after years of ill health, removing a stabilising father figure from a country where political tensions remain two years after a military coup. / AFP BANGKOK: Massive crowds of weeping Thais and saluting soldiers lined the streets yesterday as...

Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton file into Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, for a campaign appearance by President Barack Obama in support of Clinton. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

Clinton plots a 'do no harm' campaign - Trump on whirlwind US tour

Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton file into Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, for a campaign appearance by President Barack Obama in support of Clinton. -AP SAN FRANCISCO: How do you run for president during a political cyclone with no precedents and no predictable path? Hillary Clinton has her answer: Slow and steady. As Donald Trump jags across the country, battling an onslaught of...

A newspaper vendor sells newspapers reporting on the release of some of the Chibok school girls, in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. Conflicting reports are emerging about whether the first negotiated release of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 involved a ransom payment, a prisoner swap for Islamic extremist commanders or both. ( AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Chibok girls swapped for detainees, ransom or both? - 'Handsome ransom' paid by Swiss

A newspaper vendor sells newspapers reporting on the release of some of the Chibok school girls, in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016. Conflicting reports are emerging about whether the first negotiated release of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Nigeria in 2014 involved a ransom payment, a prisoner swap for Islamic extremist commanders or both. - AP JOHANNESBURG: Conflicting reports emerged yesterday about whether the first...

KUWAIT: (From left) Parliamentarians Ahmed Al-Azemi, Abdullah Al-Turaiji and Ali Al-Khamees walk through the parliament building on their way to file the grilling request against Finance Minister Anas Al Saleh. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Lawmakers file to grill Finance Minister - Political crisis brews

KUWAIT: (From left) Parliamentarians Ahmed Al-Azemi, Abdullah Al-Turaiji and Ali Al-Khamees walk through the parliament building on their way to file the grilling request against Finance Minister Anas Al Saleh. — Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatKUWAIT: Three lawmakers yesterday filed a request to grill Finance Minister and Acting Oil Minister Anas Al-Saleh over the government decision to raise petrol prices. Another lawmaker, Abdullah Maayouf, also...

Falah Al-Sawwagh

MoH investigates MP’s death

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health has officially condoled the family of the late MP Falah Al-Sawwagh and stressed that an investigation into his death was underway.Al- Sawwagh, a former opposition Islamist lawmaker, died unexpectedly following a recent surgery. Earlier reports indicated that the ex lawmaker’s condition deteriorated after a liposuction at the Babtain hospital for burns and plastic surgeries, and was later shifted to the intensive...

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Muna Al Fuzai The rejection by a domestic labor office in the UAE of a request by an Indonesian housemaid led to a devastating act of revenge against a small Emirati child. The maid came to the UAE for work, but after a while, she decided she wanted to go home. Her wish was not received well by the labor agency, which forced her to move from one house to another. So the maid decided that violence will make her voice be heard. It was a wrong...

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Maids leave but aren't blacklisted; Fake checkpoint busted

KUWAIT: Around 900 domestic helpers have left Kuwait since January through a travel program organized by their embassies. The maids, most of whom absconded from their employers were not blacklisted from returning to the country and did not have their fingerprints taken as part of the normal deportation procedures. The program is run in concert with the Interior Minister as part of the partial amnesty, sources noted.Drug dealers arrestedFour...

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Two acquitted of DAESH links

KUWAIT: The Court of Appeal yesterday acquitted an Egyptian and a Jordanian of charges of being affiliated with Daesh (the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria). The men were also acquitted of being involved in a plot to overthrow the leadership of Kuwait and of circulating publications in various mosques urging people to join Daesh. Last weekend Kuwaiti authorities arrested an Egyptian man who attacked US soldiers in Kuwait.The man...

'Prostitutes' arrested

.KUWAIT: Immigration detectives recently stormed two fake labor offices where they arrested 17 female Asians. The women were alleged hiring out as prostitutes to earn extra cash on their weekly day off from their sponsors' houses. In another incident, an Asian was recently arrested in Farwaniya with the possession of home-made liquor, said security sources.Woman penalizedMoI's Relations and Security Media announced that standard legal measures...

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Asians arrested for stealing

Asians arrested for stealingKUWAIT: Two Asians working in a public hospital were recently arrested for stealing and selling narcotic drugs and other medications. Security sources said that the suspects used to stuff their pockets with medicines and store them in their residence before selling them to a third suspect. The sources added that the suspects also had KD 1100 in cash which they had collected from selling the drugs. Also, 8,064 pills...

A glimpse of husseiniya art

A glimpse of husseiniya art

A glimpse of husseiniya artHusseiniyas around Kuwait opened in Muharram this Hijri year amid tight security by the interior ministry due to political instability in the Gulf region. Despite concerns, Shiites commemorated the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and his family and companions. The grief is not only expressed profoundly in speeches and gatherings, but artistically too in theatres, painting workshops...

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